Die for forging shifting-rails



A. WALTER.

DIE FOR FORGING SHIFTING RAILS.

No. 353,100. Patented Nov. 23, 1886.

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ADOLPH XVALTER, FREMONT, OHIO.

[ME FOR FORGING SHlFTlNG-RAILS.

ESPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 853,100, dated November 23, 1886.

Application filed September 20, 1886. Serial No. 214,082. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, ADOLPH WALTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fremont, in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dies for Forging Shifting- Rails; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view of the two sections of my improved die, the upper one thereof being elevated to show the interior or inner faces of the sections; Fig. 2, a view showing the shifting-rail in its several steps of completion, and Fig. 3 a modified form of a shifting-rail.

The present invention has for its object to improve the manufacture of carriage or buggy shiftingrails, whereby they are made complete, excepting the back corner-iron thereof. Heretofore these shifting-rails were formed by welding the several lugs thereon, or by forging them solid in short sections, which necessitated welding them together.

It is the purpose of the invention to pro vide suitably constructed dies whereby the shifting-rail can be formed complete without welding or marring the surface of the iron with a hammer, as formerly, thereby greatly reducing the cost in the manufacture of the rail,and producing one which will possess increased strength and durability, as there are no welds to break, and also giving to the rail a more finished appearance; and the invention therefore consists in the dies constructed substantially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A B represection 13 indicated at I), said bar extending longitudinally over thedie-section,and its ends resting over and upon the serrated surfaces a and over the depression a.

The die-section A is now brought down over the die-section B and over and upon the iron bar resting thereon,and by suitable trip-harnmer or other means usually employed pressure is brought upon the upper die-section, which forces the metal of the bar into the depression 0 and depression d of the upper die-section, which'form the lugs c (1, respectively, as shown in Fig. 2. This bar 0, after having been forged into shape, as shown, is afterward placed on the lower die-seetion,with the lug c resting in the mortises c,and the lug (1 extending in the mortise f, when the upper die-section is brought down into position upon the die-section B, one end of the bar 0 resting on the anvil 9, over which fits the correspondingly-shaped depression h. When pressure is brought upon the upper die-section, as heretofore, the anvil g and correspondinglyformed depression It will produce the rightangle extension 2', as shown in blank form D. WVhen the bar has been thus shaped, it is again placed between the die-sections,with the blank resting over the groove k, the lug d extending over the grooved extension Z, and the lug 0 extending over the grooved extensions m, while the right-angle exteusiont' rests over the extension n. This gives the final shape to the shifting-rail, as shown at E, Fig. 2, the upper section, A, being brought down over the lower die-section, B, with the groove k, groove-extensions Z'mn coming over the blank and on the same plane with the extensions Z m n and groove is, producing, as heretofore stated, a complete shifting-rail, except the back corner-iron thereof, and the lugs thus formed on the shifting-rail are invariably a uniform distance apart, which is diifi'enlt to attain by welding the pieces together or putting in extra pieces, as has been the usual custom.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a modified form of shifting-rail, and therefore do not wish to be understood as confining myself to the precise construction of dies, as they will be modified or changed to conform with the style or shape of the shifting-rail to be produced.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A die for forging into shape shifting-rails for carriages or buggies, consisting of two diesections having at or near their corners serrated surfaces, and at or near one end an anvil on one section and a depression on the other to fit over the same when the two seetions are brought togetheigand depressions or mortises on the two die-sections to form the lugs on the shifting-rail, and grooves with eX- tensions for giving to the rail its finished or complete shape after the lugs have been formed on the blank by the depressions or mortises in I 5 the die-seetions,and the right-angle end of the blank being formed by the anvil, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence 20 of two witnesses.

ADOLPH WALTER.

W'itnesses:

J AMEs H. FOWLER, O. F. BELL. 

